Re: Use case: GIT to manage transactions in a CMS?

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

J. David Ibáñez wrote:

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Hello,

I am working on a project (a content management system) where the data
is stored as files and folders.

Currently, for persistance and transactions we use the ZODB [1] object
database. But our goal is to move away from the ZODB and use directly
the file system, as it will allow us to use all the good unix tools.

We are using git to manage the source code. And now we are exploring git
to see if it can do the job of transactions, so that each transaction in
the system will be a git commit.

One problem we have found is that we can not commit empty directories
(what
we need to do). Any idea how to solve or work-around this constraint?

$ touch empty/dir/.placeholder

I would like to have something better, no so much of a work-around.

Maybe I could hack something, are there some docs explaining the
internal format of git objects? or, where to look in the source to
find this info?

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Any suggestions and input on this exotic use case for git will be very
welcomed.

Another point, the application is written in Python, right now I
have to open a shell to run the git commands.

It would be nice if the core functionality was implemented in a C
library, then with a Python wrapper I could use git without going
through the shell.

Is this something to be expected? There will be a "libgit" sometime
in the future?

Sounds cool. I'll have to give it a whirl when you've got something to
show.

Probably I will have to hack something else to have ACID transactions,
in the short-term. But "git" is at least interesting, since it could
open a world of possibilities. If I ever have something to show, I will
tell you.


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